Conference Papers and Presentations (IIFET 2000)

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Three speakers give their impressions of the conference with praise as well as suggestions for the future. The inter-disciplinary nature of the conference was praised as wellas the attempt to integrate non-economists and ...

There are, at least, four basic characteristics of the
universe that are the data source for North American
cultures in maintaining a balance between the physical
sense of the universe and the intuitive non-dimensiona ...

When we talk about indigenous cultural practices we are in fact talking about responsibilities that have evolved into
unwritten tribal laws over millennia. These responsibilities and laws are directly tied to nature and ...

Traditional economic analysis posits market-based institutions as being substitutes for non-market based institutions.
The process of development then tends to be seen as the process of substituting the more efficient m ...

This paper elaborates the use of distributed Genetic Algorithms (DGA) to study an artificial land rental market. The
study is based on a spatial comparative-static model in which a number of spatially ordered agents (fa ...